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Thank you for the fabulous sharing! “A near enemy” … it’s so true. He hides right u der our nose as an almost truth. I have this book…looking forward to cracking it open soon!

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Jun 23, 2022Liked by Elizabeth Braswell

I couldn't figure out how to respond here at first, so I commented on the Facebook one...

But I have more to say, lol!

Brene Brown's book Atlas of the Heart has been a super interesting read for me this spring. She uses the phrase "near enemy" to describe an emotion or response that seems good and looks almost the same as the right one, but is actually undermining the true good response.

It struck me as I read that what my daddy told me was true... He used to say, "Just because it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, doesn't mean it's a duck!"

We have to look to Him for the standard, not look inside ourselves. ALL of the "good" responses that Brene talks about are manifestations of the gifts of the Spirit! She does not couch her stuff in religious language, but that is what it is!

That's all,

Grace in Africa

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Jun 22, 2022·edited Jun 22, 2022

Jeremiah 17:9-10 The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

“I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve.”

Jeremiah 17:9 (AMP)

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly perverse and corrupt and severely, mortally sick! Who can know it [perceive, understand, be acquainted with his own heart and mind]?

Just sayin….

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